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McEllin, Luke, Felber, Annalena and Michael, John (2023) The fruits of our labour: Interpersonal coordination generates commitment by signalling a willingness to adapt. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76 (1). pp. 147-159. doi:10.1177/17470218221079830 ISSN 1747-0218.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221079830
Abstract
Countless everyday activities require us to coordinate our actions and decisions with others. Coordination not only enables us to achieve instrumental goals, but has also been shown to boost commitment, leading people to persevere with an interaction even when their motivation wavers. So far, little is known about the mechanism by which coordination generates commitment. To investigate this, we conducted two experiments which represented very different coordination problems: coordination of movement timing on a joint drumming task (Experiment 1) and coordination of decision-making on a joint object matching task (Experiment 2). In both experiments, the similarity of the participant and partner was manipulated by varying whether or not they had perceptual access to the participant’s workspace, and the participants’ attribution of (un)willingness to invest effort into the joint action by adapting was manipulated by varying whether or not the participant believed their partner had perceptual access. As a measure of commitment, we registered how much participants’ persisted on a boring and effortful task to earn points for their partners. Participants were significantly less committed to earning points for unadaptive partners than for adaptive partners, but only when they believed that their partner was unwilling to adapt rather than unable to adapt. This demonstrates that coordination can generate commitment insofar as it provides a cue that one’s partner is willing to invest effort to adapt for the good of the interaction. Moreover, we demonstrate that this effect generalises across different kinds of coordination.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cognition, Social perception, Neurosciences -- Social aspects, Interpersonal relations, Social psychology , Decision making , Adaptation level (Psychology) , Commitment (Psychology) | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1747-0218 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 76 | ||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 147-159 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/17470218221079830 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 March 2022 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 March 2022 | ||||||||||
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